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If you missed out on the Fallout 4 collector’s edition then you can still go one better: make your own Pip-Boy using a Raspberry Pi.

The Fallout 4 Collector’s Edition comes with an actual life-size Pip-Boy, the purposefully retro wrist-mounted computer you use in the game. It’s basically just a really big bracelet though, into which you’re supposed to slide your smartphone so that it can pretend to be the actual computer.

Except it won’t work with bigger phones like the iPhone 6+ and it’s already sold out, so most people probably aren’t going to get a chance to pay £99.99 for one.

Undaunted by any of these problems though fan TheMCV on Reddit has created his own custom-made version that doesn’t need no stinking iPhone.

The 3D printer aspect alone is pretty cool

He designed the armband so he could make it with a 3D printer and then put a Raspberry Pi microcomputer inside it. It already looks and works just like the one from the game, although at the moment he refers to it only as the Pip-Boy 3000a.

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The main difference at the moment is that it uses a keyboard instead of retro dials like the ‘real’ thing, although he seems to be working on that.

The biggest issue though, is that it doesn’t actually interface with the game – although perhaps a modded PC version can be constructed. In the meantime he’s also made some Fallout 4 overalls to console himself.